Managing Zones
What Are Zones
A zone is just another word for a room in your house—Sonos lets you enjoy music in up to 32 rooms, inside or out. We call
them zones because you can group rooms together to play the same song in every room, or you can listen to different songs
in every room. This means you can group the kitchen and the patio together while barbecuing, link all the rooms in the house
together for a party, or leave all the rooms unlinked and let the kids can enjoy rap in their rooms while you listen to jazz in
your office.
Zones can be managed from any Sonos Controller. Use the Zones menu to:
• Select a zone to play some music in
• See the music that’s currently playing in every room
• Link zones together to form a zone group
• Drop a zone from a zone group
Music will continue to play while you browse. The current zone is highlighted on your screen, and the music selections you
make will play in that zone.
Grouping Zones
A zone can be grouped together with any other zone(s) to form a zone group. This will cause all the zones in the zone group
to play the same music in synchrony. You can link or drop zones from a group while the music is playing. You can also link all
the Sonos components in your house with one touch by selecting All Zones-Party Mode.
You can create a zone group first and then select music to play, or you can add a room to a zone group where music is already
playing.
Any zones you link will automatically drop their current music queue and begin to play the music queue from the highlighted
zone. If you want to be able to play that music queue later, you can save it as a Sonos playlist before linking the zones. See
"Sonos Playlists" on page 42 for more information.
Zones can be managed from either the
Zones
pane or the
Zones
menu.
1.
From the
Zones
pane, highlight the zone you want to link to another zone or zone group.
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